CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Stem solid, rich red brown, redder than the pileus, tapering- downwards, 
redder at the base, and set with bristly hairs, often crooked and eccentric, 
two inches high, three-tenths diameter. 
The whole plant, but especially the gills, abounding with white milky juice, 
at first mild, but at length leaving a slight pungency in the throat. 
Edgbaston Park, under the large clump of beeches. July. 
Ag. pilo'sus. (SchsefF.) Gills brown, four in a set: pileus and stem 
yellowish, tufted with darker hair. 
(Sowerhy 164. E.)— Schceff. 80— FI. Fan. 491. 
Gills decurrent, brownish, numerous, broad. 
Pileus yellowish, convex, flattish, or bossed, tufted with hairs. Flesh 
tough. 
Stem solid, cylindrical, twisted, tapering at bottom, yellow, but less so 
than the pileus, rough with dark hairs, one and a half to four inches 
long, thick as a finger, firm, white within, above the ring naked. Ring 
permanent. Curtain fugacious. Root closely compressed and tapering. 
In those clusters which I gathered, though the stems were large, they 
tapered so much that the junction of them all was not equal to the size ©f 
a single stem. The young ones come out straw-coloured. 
( Hairy Agaric. Ag. pilosus. SchaefF. Ag. Hudsoni. Pers. E.) Specimens, 
drawing and description, from Mr. Stackhouse. On stumps of pear and 
oak, (and not uncommon on the decayed leaves of holly. Dickson. Purt. 
E.) 
Var. 2. Pileus tawny, uniformly shaggy with hair: stem white: curtain 
white: ring permanent. 
Bolt. 42. 
I am indebted to Mr. Stackhouse for a specimen of this, and also for the 
following remarks. It is a fasciculated Agaric growing on trees: the 
part of the stem above the ring quite smooth: pileus clothy and hairy, 
or regularly woolly all over. I think it a variety of Ag. pilosus. 
Ag. villosus. Bolt. Woolhope, Herefordshire. 
Sept. 1791. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Var. 3. Gills paler than the pileus: pileus tufted: stem smooth, bulbous at 
the base. 
At Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Oct. 
Ag. delicat'ulus. Gills brown cinnamon, claws white; four or 
eight in a set; pileus buffy yellow, flattish; stem cylindrical, 
yellow. 
FI. Fan. 1008. 2 will give some idea of it , excepting the hollow stem } and the 
too great regularity of the gills. 
Gills a little decurrent, rich cinnamon, white where fixed to the stem, four 
in a set, eight in the larger plants; the long gills very broad, tearing 
from the stem when the pileus is expanded. 
Pileus buffy yellow, thin at the edge, nearly flat, but concave in the centre 
when old. 
Stem. solid, yellow, shining, three inches high, thick as a raven or goose 
quill, cylindrical. 
Ring turned down on the stem, fugacious.- 
The whole plant very brittle, tender, and juicy, a very small pressure 
destroying the colours, and giving them a watery dark appearance. 
(Delicate Agaric. E.) Edgbaston, by the stews, rare. 
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20th May, 1792, 
